, 1887-10-22

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dared to hope for the reranche. 1t is with
Impotence we now expect it." U~tterances
OF this kind must be expected at military
dinners; but the graver journals in Paris
think them important enough to suppress.
There can be no doubt that if the mobilization
has succeeded, the readiness for war within
the Army will be increased. And it is the
Army rather than the people or the Govern
ment which will at last fix the time.
The people Of Philadelphia commenced on
Thursday 10Th Sept. a three days festival,
commemorating the hundredth anniversary
of the acceptance of the Constitution. With
considerable judgement and some audacity,
they have resolved to make the festival illus
trate chiefly their material progress, and each
trade will exhibit it's processes as they were
and as they are. The builders, for example,
display the old wood-cutting and brick
making methods in juxtaposition with wood.
working and neutrality-suspicious.: the
railways will show pack-mules as we'll as
the newest locomotives and the shipbuilders
will contrast the ancient tub-like boats with
the newest thing in armour plated cruisers.
The exhibition covers all departments of
industry, will be of enormous extent, and
will, it is believed, attract a million of people
to gaze. That is, in modern times, a grand
success ; but we wonder some one has not
attempted to exhibit Improvements in the
people. Arapahoes and other wild Indians
are, indeed, shown side-by-side with Indians
from the training-schools but the effects of
the century upon white Americans have
apparently been overlooked. Could not the
men of two Congresses be compared, or are
the contrasts not striking enough to be per-
ceptible? Perhaps, however, the managers
fear lest the change from the Puritans of
the "Mayfower' to the anarchists of Chicago
should suggest a doubt as to the true value
of so much material advance. The arti sans
of 1887 used no machines, but also they did
not earn or deserve hanging. Great is COM
fort but one signs for an Improvement on
Washington as well as on his house, and
signs in vain
Sir John Gorst, in his speech of Friday on
the Indian Budget, showed that Burmah
had cost in ,18S6-87 two millions sterling in
excess Of the revenue received. This, now
ever, was due exclusively to the heavy mill
tary expenditure, rendered necessary by
.semi-poltical brigandage, an army of $1,000
men having at last been employed. The
work, however, is nearly camplete the civil
officers have got their twenty districts in
hand, the Shan States have accepted the
partial independence offered them, and it is
believed that in future the military police
will secure complete order. Trade is improv-
ing rapidly, and The police are themselves
fighting dacoits, while cheap railways are
under construction in tWo directions. The
great railway, however, upon which the
future Of Burmah will depend, connecting
Mandelay with Bengal Proper, has not been
begun; Till it is. finished the oSsfspill Of
the great want of the new Province, which
is an industrial population. The peasants
will not 60 by sea but with the railway once
open, and the land settlement complete, the
immigration ought to reach 100, 900 a year.
The Bengalees make the best of citizens,
they understand all the agriculture suited to
Burmah, and in some districts they are as
pressed as Chinese for room. We do not
want swarms of Chinese coming through the
passes. as they will if we do not succeed in
filling up the land. $50